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The Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey

Crapsey, Adelaide (1878-1914)

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The Mother Exultant

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Cinquains 1911–1913

Susanna And The Elders

Languor After Pain

The Guarded Wound

Saying of Il Haboul Guardian Of The Treasure Of Solomon And Keeper Of The Prophet's Armour

The Death Of Holofernes

Laurel In the Berkshires

The Grand Canyon

Now Barabbas Was A Robber

Refuge In Darkness

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To Walter Savage Landor

Hypnos, God of Sleep

On Seeing Weather-Beaten Trees

Warning To The Mighty

Oh, Lady, Let The Sad Tears Fall

Perfume of Youth

The Monk In The Garden

Harvesters' Song

ROSE-MARY OF THE ANGELS

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Cry Of The Nymph To Eros

To Man Who Goes Seeking Immortality Bidding Him Look Nearer Home.

The Lonely Death

Lo, All The Way

The Crucifixion

The Immortal Residue

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ADDITIONAL POEMS I

To The Dead In The Grave-Yard Under My Window:—Written in A Moment of Exasperation

To an Unfaithful Lover

To A Hermit Thrush

For Lucas Cranach's Eve

Blue Hyacinths.

[Thou art not friendly sleep that hath delayed]

My Birds That Fly No Longer

The Elgin Marbles

You Nor I Nor Nobody Knows

[What news comrade upon the mountain top]

[Now doth blue kirtled night relume the stars]

John-a-dreams—

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ADDITIONAL POEMS II

Lines Addressed To My Left Lung Inconveniently Enamoured Of Plant-Life

Grave Digger Catch

The Song of Choice.

The Two Mothers

[I offer my self to you as cool water in cup of crystal]

Girl Fleeing Love

[It's oh, my dear, the sun shines clear]

There's a gay girl laughing.

The Black-mailing Ruffian.

An Early Christian Hymn “How doth the Heathen rage”

Traces of the Rustic in Amos.

The Golden Princess.

The changed request O que m'importe que tu sois sage Sois belle et sois triste

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UNDERGRADUATE POEMS

The Heart of a Maid.

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CHEROKEE INDIAN CHARMS

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(1) Love Charm—

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(2) Charm to cure the bite of a snake.

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Grave Digger Catch

The new moon
And a red rose
The old moon
And a dead rose
Wield the pick
And wield the spade

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Dig.. dig.. dig
And a grave is made:
Who danced in the light
In dark he'll sleep
Dig his bed for him
Deep.. deep.. deep.